BEIJING, Aug. 25 Kyodo China in ...

BEIJING, Aug. 25 Kyodo

China in succession Monday protested the landing in succession a group of disputed islands of members of a Japanese rightwing cluster ''in violation of China's territorial integrity and sovereignty.''

Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told reporters that members of the Japan Youth League, a Japanese rightwing assemblage had once again illegally landed onward the uninhabited Diaoyu Islands, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan.

He said the Foreign Ministry and Chinese Embassy in Japan have one as well as the other been authorized to lodge representations to the Japanese side.

The spokesman insisted that the islands have been an integral part of China since ancient times, for which the Chinese side has ''indisputable historic and legal evidence.''

Any unilateral action regarding the Diaoyu Islands taken by the agency of the Japanese side was illegal and invalid, for like action cannot alter the basic fact that the Diaoyu Islands are the integral territory of China, Kong reportedly said.

The spokesman called forward Japan to take ''immediate effective measures to eradicate the impacts of the landing and preclude the reoccurrence of similar incidents.''

Previously in 1996 1999 and 2000 members of the Japan Youth League landed in succession the Diaoyu Islands, establishing a lighthouse and a shrine, the report noted.

Taiwan also claims the hard isles located some 500 kilometers from Japan's Okinawa Island and 140 km from Taiwan, and calls them Tiaoyutai.

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